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Guinness-Guzzling Grassroots Tell Top World Leaders Where To Place Their “Palestine”

#1323 May 24, 2026

Israel bashing by political bigs, abetted by media and activists, has reached a disparagement tone and intensity point that dispassionate refutations are no longer adequate. Time’s come to toss in a bit of reciprocal irreverence. A commenter to our last week’s #1322 post links video of pro-Israel grassroots going at this in Europe.

Guinness-Guzzling Grassroots Tell Top World Leaders Where To Place Their “Palestine”

World leaders’ constant criticism of Israel, abetted by media misreporting and activists’ taunts, has inflamed world-over antisemitism to an extreme that dispassionate factual responses don’t get heard in the din. We have to join in the fray.

Our last week’s #1322 addressed two horrendous mainstream media malportrayals last week of Jews – the New York Times’ “Israel dogs raping Palestinian prisoners” piece and the Associated Press’ mile-wide misdescription of Palestinian Arabs’ annual “Nakba” commemoration.

Three of those readers’ comments bear directly on the manner of pro-Israel response in these days of worldwide passionate bashing of Israel.

Rainer’s Rousing Ditty

What I loved about reader Rainer’s comment last week was his link to a song that’s going viral in Germany showing pro-Israel beer-guzzling folks there manifesting the same degree of respect toward Israel-bashing world leaders as they manifest towards our homeland of Jews.

By all means click the link to see and hear it. In a pale prose summary, the leader, bellied up to the bar, begins “Here’s to the lads in Westminster, may they drink their Guinness through a straw, Hurrah!,” goes on to express equivalent wishes “to the wise men of Ottawa, Canberra, and Paris” and “to the clowns in Madrid, Ankara, and Dublin,” and then, raising his glass, urging “Now sing it with me, boys!” he comes to the repeated chorus offering those said world leaders a Palestine placement suggestion:

“Oh, you know where you can shove your Palestine?
“You can stick it where the sun don’t shine!”

Stu’s Suggestion I Put the AP’s Misdescription of “Nakba” to the AP

In last week’s #1322 I quoted two paragraphs of the AP’s May 15, Israel Independence Day in the secular calendar, article explaining to readers “What Was the Nakba.”  Here’s a sampling of #1322.

*** In its sanctifying of Palestinian Arabs as innocent victims, AP claimed “fighting began” in May 1948 when Arab armies invaded. Local Arabs’ attacking of Jews began back in November 1947 when all Arabs rejected UN partition, starting ferocious fighting between them for months.

*** AP wrote of “Israel’s establishment as a home for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust.” I called that off by 3,000 years. 

*** The AP wrote: “For Palestinians, the Nakba meant the loss of most of their homeland.” I answered Palestinian Arabs are the majority of judenrein Jordan, three-quarters of Mandated Palestine, and that western Palestine wasn’t homogenously Palestinian Arabs’ homeland, but had c. a million Arabs [that’s all] and c. 650,000 Jews (not counting survivors in Europe still blocked by Britain from before the Holocaust and Britain-intercepted Aliyah Bet still imprisoned in Cyprus).

*** The AP called Judea-Samaria “Israeli-occupied West Bank.”  I said it has been called “Judea-Samaria” for 3,000 years, including by the UN in 1947, and that by us it’s not “occupied,” not “disputed” but Ours, and AP should have said so.

Stu suggested I ask AP for “clarification.”  I replied:

“I wrestled with this, Stu. But I had a lengthy 1-on-1 conversation years ago with Andrea Levin when she was head of CAMERA on the difference between CAMERA and me. CAMERA works with the media respectfully seeking balanced reporting on Israel. I work with the grassroots seeking their disrespectful response to imbalanced reporting on Israel.

“So it’s not for me to seek clarification from the AP for the imbalance on the 1948 confrontation between Arabs and Israel. AP et ilk have been this imbalanced since before I started my weekly emails a quarter-century ago. See, e.g., The Jewish Voice this morning: “Mamdani’s Nakba Day Video Ignites Firestorm as Jewish Leaders Decry ‘Selective History’ Amid Rising Tensions in NYC” on NY’s mayor doing exactly the same thing.”

Steve on Use of Jewish Resources in Responding to New York Times

Longtime reader journalist Israeli Steve Kramer, these days featured on Peloni’s Israpundit, commented: “I advocate not suing the NYT, but instead buying control of it, à la Bezos and WashPo.” 

I replied with a different idea:

“We Jews can best spend our money training male dogs to see that what appear at first sight to be New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper “honor” boxes are really fire hydrants and telephone poles in disguise and that they should treat them accordingly.”

Bottom Line

As Jonathan Tobin recently observed (quoted in our #1320), “many Israeli and American Jews have internalized some of the most unfortunate tropes of traditional antisemitism.”  That just exacerbates bullying.  Fortifying ourselves with Guinness if necessary, we must answer back with both facts and counter-irreverence.